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Monday, April 03, 2006

Success

I've been thinking about successful people recently. The common attributes that the successful people I know seem to share are:1. Persistence2. Charisma3. VisionBy vision, I mean that they are dreamers, building castles in the sky before they have poured the foundation's cement.

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Add:- support (friends, spouse)- an above-average IQ (not: a high IQ, which might turn out a hindrance)- luck/hashgoche protes- coincidences including, still, social upbringing, "race" and the like.

Charisma and vision are disputable, in my opinion. Many people are highly successful in all kinds of areas without having any visions, and even more visionaries are complete failures who don't ever get noted.

Charisma is often really a high self-confidence, not necessarily unfounded.